Twitch is requiring new Affiliates, before their first payment, to give government photo ID and a separate photo to Persona, the same Persona that has connections to government mass surveillance programs. When I asked Twitch support for another option, they said there isn't one. #twitch #persona 1/4
I think the whole reason is not “verify you are an adult”. It’s for anti-bot. Bots are too good nowadays. It’s indistinguishable at scale. And bots are bad for advertisers.
That’s one hot take… Advertisers don’t care if the streamer is a bot, they care if the viewer is a bot. Mega-corpo’s ideal solution is 100% bot streamers and 100% real people viewers.
This isn’t age verification, or anti-bot. This is straight up fulfilling surveillance contracts with the US government. They don’t even need to justify it, they are holding money hostage instead.
Fucking why? Being able to link a bank account for ad payments isn’t enough to prove adulthood?
I think the whole reason is not “verify you are an adult”. It’s for anti-bot. Bots are too good nowadays. It’s indistinguishable at scale. And bots are bad for advertisers.
That’s one hot take… Advertisers don’t care if the streamer is a bot, they care if the viewer is a bot. Mega-corpo’s ideal solution is 100% bot streamers and 100% real people viewers.
This isn’t age verification, or anti-bot. This is straight up fulfilling surveillance contracts with the US government. They don’t even need to justify it, they are holding money hostage instead.